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Cosmoscow 2025

KIRILL KOTESHOV, OLEG DOU, GRIGORY OREKHOV, VALENTIN KORZHOV

стенд А10

12.09 — 14.09.2025

Timiryazev Center (Moscow, Verkhnyaya Alley, 8)

Time and knowledge have a common property - irreversibility. It is impossible to inhale the fragrance of a cut rose for the first time, as well as to become free from the information received. Artists Kirill Koteshov, Oleg Dou, Grigory Orekhov and Valentin Korzhov, represented at the a—s—t—r—a gallery stand, are working with the consequences of this irreversibility.

Kirill Koteshov, referring to the anthropogonic myth as a technology for producing living things from the obsolete – something that once returned to the depths of the earth, becoming its treasure (stories about a man coming out of the ground), the project expands the idea of utopia in art. Utopian projects of the past, buried under a dense layer of paper waste from bureaucratic production, have always been mythologized by art history, preserved in museums, and nevertheless became standards for master dreamers who persistently create the technological body of the future. Thus, the ancient Greek concept of "techne", which once united art, craft and science, can now be applied to the "geology of art" as the study of the production of ideas that accumulate in the layers of history, are extracted from it and presented to the world anew. Similarly, the project sets the theme for a new mythology, where the ancient earth's crust appears as the skin of a new collective body, unfolded to meet heightened political sensuality. The demiurge here is a sphere (the core of the earth, fiery and dangerous) or a void – a deadly virus invisible to the naked eye, malicious code or heightened social solidarity.

In the Stripping Time installation, artist Grigory Orekhov creates an image of extreme concentration of form and symbol. A polished stainless steel pole covered with gold of the highest quality stands on a round mirrored podium. At its top is a barely noticeable candle, whose flame becomes the semantic center of the entire work. The work is formally minimalistic, but internally it is saturated with tension. Here, gold does not represent wealth or triumph, but rather the illusion of eternity. This is a surface layer that cannot protect against the effects of time, just as the flame embedded in the structure cannot stop it. Fire does not destroy an object, but violates its apparent immutability. It acts as an indication that even in ideal structures there is an internal flow of time, elusive and unstoppable.

Oleg Dou addresses the fundamental pulsation of human existence: the mystery of birth and the fragility of childhood, the manifestations of sexuality and the inevitability of death. The visual leitmotif of the project is images of fluidity and vital substance: milk oozing from a broken arrow into a bowl, or white drops like juice appearing on flower petals. These images symbolize both nutrition and vulnerability, the source of life and its ephemerality. The aesthetics of the author can be called "digital Baroque" - the images are characterized by the complexity of composition, dramatic light and detail typical of the classical school, reinterpreted through the prism of modern technology. Sculptures, located at the intersection of art and design, materialize ideas through unusual, provocative materials. Silicone, which imitates living flesh, becomes a key means of expression, creating objects that simultaneously attract and repel with their almost organic physicality.

Valentin Korzhov is one of the most polyphonic contemporary Russian artists, who tragically passed away at the height of his career. He worked with the entire medial spectrum of expressive means: from traditional to digital art and coding. He wanted to sound and sounded through projects in many registers at the same time. Moving too fast to care about strategies, in a rapid intuitive search, guided by the ideas and philosophical interlocutors of the past, Korzhov created different and seemingly distant works, but always united by a common goal - to touch the Source. And through them, I found and defined myself: "Reflection on the created work and thoughts around it become my reality." He argued, following Proust, that the work creates the author, that it is primary. His projects internally gravitated towards sculpture. Their thematic, genre, medial and plastic diversity implied a dense object form at the base, perhaps imaginary, or as a semantic center and assemblage point.

Dou Oleg

Oleg Dou took up photography in 2005 and began combining it with post-processing. He works in various media from digital images and video to sculptures. 

Oleg Dou is the pseudonym of artist Oleg Douryagin.

Born in 1983 in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, specializing in economic programming. Since childhood he was interested in art, became interested in creating computer graphics. In 2005 he took up photography and began to combine it with post-processing. He works in various media from digital images and video to sculptures.
Winner of International Photography Awards (2007), International Color Awards (2008) and Arte Laguna Art Prize (Italy, 2009). Nominee of the Kandinsky Prize in 2007 and 2008.
Oleg created a Photoshop cover commissioned by Adobe, participated in the “Leaders of Public Opinion” program, creating works at the invitation of the Culture Department of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has collaborated with brands such as Givenchy, Juun J, David Koma. 
His works are in museum collections of Luxemburg Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg; Ekaterina Foundation, Russia; Jan des bouvrie, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, France; Samawi Collection, Dubai; Jeju museum of art, Korea; 21 cMuseum, USA; Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Russia; FRAC Reunion, France; Sollo Collection, Spain and others. As well as in private collections in Russia, America and Switzerland. 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

  • 2025 — Fair |catalog| November, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2025  Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2024  Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2024 Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2024 St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • 2024 Fair |catalog| April, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2019 “Mutant”, solo exhibition , Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia 
  • 2018 “Looking Back and Beyond”, group exhibition, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA 
  • 2018 “Elèctric i llunyà”, group exhibition, Tecla Sala Cultural Center, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2017 “Elegance”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France 
  • 2016 “On behalf of baboushka”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France 
  • 2016 “All eyes on me”, group exhibition, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia 
  • 2016 “Lonely Narcissus”, solo exhibition, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2014 “Faces”, solo exhibition, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2014 “8 years. Retrospective”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
  • 2012 “Another Face”, solo exhibition, Museum of Multimedia Arts, Moscow, Russia
  • 2012 “Tears and Toy Story”, solo exhibition, Museum of Regional Arts of Krasnodar, Russia
  • 2012 “Another Face”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
  • 2012 “Reboot”, group exhibition, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2012 “I am who I am”, group exhibition, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2012 International Photography Festival, Republic of Korea
  • 2012 “Perestroika”, solo exhibition, Fotofest 2012 Biennial of Photography, Houston, USA
  • 2012 “Photography: Russia, China, Czech and Slovak Republic” group exhibition, Allen Center, Houston, USA
  • 2011 “Cubs”, solo exhibition, Espace Art 22 gallery, Brussels
  • 2011 “Cubs”, solo exhibition, Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2011 FotoArtFestival, BWA, Bielsko, Twarze, Poland
  • 2011 “Cubs”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
  • 2011 “Gevaarlijk Jong”, group exhibition, Dr. Ghislain Museum, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2011 “F for Fake”, group exhibition, Belvedere Palace, San Leucio “Smell, Colour, Chemestry, Art and Education”, Santa Monica Museum, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2010 “Toystory”, solo exhibition, Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 2010 “Toystory”, solo exhibition, Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2010 “Russian Tales”, group exhibition, EXPRMNTL gallery, Toulouse, France
  • 2010 “Russains! Photographic portrait 1970-2010”, group exhibition, OREL ART gallery, Paris, France
  • 2010 “Atopia”, group exhibition, Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2010 “inSPIRACJE”, festival, Poland
  • 2010 “L'exquis et l'obscur”, Galerie D.X, Bordeaux, France
  • 2009 “Tears”, solo exhibition, Art Espace 22, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2009 “Les Visages”, group exhibition, Interalia, Seoul
  • 2009 “Look me in the Eyes”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris
  • 2009 Pingyao International Photography Festival 2009, China
  • 2009 “Visage. Image. Timps”, group exhibition, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Fair |catalog| April 2023, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:



Works


Pretty
Dou Oleg

Pretty, 2025

Силикон, дерево, стекло
78 х 81 х 30 см
Strange Year
Dou Oleg

Strange Year, 2017

С-print (лазерная фотопечать), акрил
160 x 120 см, 240 х 180 см
Pretty
Dou Oleg

Pretty, 2025

Силикон, дерево, стекло
35 х 35 х 155 см
Strange Year
Dou Oleg

Strange Year, 2025

С-print (лазерная фотопечать), акрил
200 х 150 см

Коржов Валентин

1975 - 2022

Валентин Коржов - художник, ориентированный на идею пространства. Его воображение захватила идея пустоты Хайдеггера.

1975 — 2022

Член Московского Союза Художников, отдела скульптуры.

  • 1998 — Окончил МПГУ, художественно-графический факультет
  • 1996-2002 — Работал в творческой мастерской скульптура В.В. Сидоренко
  • 2011 — Член секции скульптуры Московского союза художников и Объединения московских скульпторов
  • 2018 — Входит в топ-100 русских художников, по версии «InArt»
  • 2020 — Финалист XIV Международной премии «Arte Laguna»

Скульптурную практику Валентина Коржова можно охарактеризовать как абсолютную пространственность, устремленную к динамической эстетике пространства. Под влиянием феноменологии Хайдеггера и его необычной концепции ничтожности как фундаментальной основы существования, Коржов помещал свои скульптурные интервенции - загадочные нарративы о материи и самости - в онтологическую точку ноль, в пустоты. Через противопоставление зловещих скульптурных композиций и физических пустот бесплодных полей и пустых поверхностей возникает третье пространство неограниченной пространственности.

Коржов родился в Москве, получил образование по скульптуре в художественной академии и начал свою профессиональную карьеру в мастерской скульптора-мастера Виктора Сидоренко. В его работах неоклассические изображения тела сливаются с постмодернистскими идеями о материальности, происхождении и реликвиях, создавая объекты, которые одновременно и присутствуют, и являются симулякрами археологических обломков из неопределенных, отдаленных времен, будь то в прошлом или будущем. В многодисциплинарных инсталляциях, которые манипулируют пространственностью как медиумом, художник занимался созданием иммерсивных опытов, черпающих вдохновение не только из ресурсов искусства, но и из современной философии и науки.

Темпоральность в работах Коржова смещена; он читает палимпсест цивилизации как сложный гобелен из переплетенных текстов, образов и архетипов, уходя от историцизма скульптуры к изначальному мифографическому пространству, которое охватывает и отдаленное будущее. В его пространственных конструкциях различные темпоральности сливаются, открывая новые пути для интерпретации истории образов через текст, теорию, визуальную культуру и сенсорное восприятие. Как практик, основанный на исследованиях, художник был постоянно вовлечен в диалоги с мыслителями прошлого и настоящего, уникальным образом пересказывая дискурс современной культуры.

В практике художника сложно выделить одно направление - каждая из его работ является сочетанием скульптуры и художественной композиции, расставленной с театральной точностью и запечатлённой на фотообъектив. Коржов превращает каждый свой проект в масштабную коллаборацию с участием признанных международных фотографов, кинорежиссёров, актёров и профессиональных техников. Конечный результат для зрителя являет собой многоплановые инсталляции с эффектом глубокого погружения, с сочетанием кульптуры, видео и фотоискусства.

Валентин Коржов был членом секции скульптуры Московского союза художников, его персональные выставки проходили в Фонде культуры «Екатерина», Государственном Музее им. Дарвина, Центре Современного Искусства «Винзавод», Воронежской Академии Искусств и других. Экспозиция «Археология Памяти» демонстрировалась в качестве параллельной программы в ходе V Международного Московского Биеннале Современного Искусства. В 2018 году проект «BEING & TIME» вошел в состав основных проектов VIII Ташкентской Международной Биеннале современного искусства, а в 2020 году Валентин стал финалистом XIV Международной Премии Arte Laguna и в марте представил свою инсталляцию «THE BRAIN THAT PASSED AWAY» в Венеции.

Коржов жил и работал в Москве. Трагически погиб в 2022 году в результате автомобильной аварии.

О ПРОЕКТЕ «DARVIN VS DARVIN»:

Проект «Darwin vs Darwin» – оригинальная попытка синхронизировать законы биологического и духовного развития человека. Фантастический мультимедийный проект Валентина не просто сталкивает между собой начало и финал эволюции всего живого, но и заставляет прожить эту драму как мгновенную эволюцию сознания, зрения, самого искусства. В рамках проекта были созданы гиперреалистичные анималистические и человекоподобные скульптурные объекты из силикона, выполненных в FX технике, что производит впечатление абсолютной достоверности происходящего, а также произведения фото- и видеоискусства.

О ПРОЕКТЕ «BREAKFAST AT CRONUS»:

Проект «Breakfast at Cronus», сосредоточенный на основополагающих нарративах Древней Греции, рассматривает античный миф о Кроносе – прародителе времени – и ряде других архетипических персонажах, чтобы раскрыть расширенную основу реальности; видимость, заключённую в чистой действительности. Коржов отталкивается от хайдеггеровского понятия поэзиса – акта создания или творения, тождественного метафизике и поэзии, а также непосредственной данности материального мира, готового к преобразованию нами. Это открытие ведет к истине или сущности, лежащей в основе нашего технологического воображения и помогающей чему-то возникнуть.

О ПРОЕКТЕ «VIA SACRA» и «THUS SPOKE HEAVEN»:

Если в ранних его проектах подчеркивается животное начало человеческой сущности (Darwin vs Darwin), то со временем в работах все больше отражается начало духовное. Валентин очень долго искал, нащупывал путь, позволяющий изобразить чувства, эмоции, тонкие, неосязаемые в скульптуре материи и при этом уйти от прямого цитирования. И если в первых проектах для художника характерна прямолинейность высказываний, то в последних работах он пришел к компромиссу иносказательности и фигуративности. Он берет слепки с греческих статуй как форму для отлива скульптуры и использует эту форму как ячейку, ракушку — она символизирует наше тело. Это сосуд для нематериального содержимого — того, что ведет нас к сверхчеловеку (по Ницше), — души.

О ПРОЕКТЕ «BEING AND TIME»:

Проект «Бытие и Время» представлял варианты земного воплощения геометрии космических тел. В качестве прототипа для своих произведений Валентин использует фотоснимки скоплений галактик, туманностей и астероидных поясов. Для моделирования объектов художником был разработан специальный метод соединения точек источников света на фотографиях космоса. Работы словно «космические слепки», в которых едва можно угадать рукотворность, повествуют зрителю о формах бытования в Галактике. Коржов материализует в объектах космические пустоты. Манифестируя первичность «идеального закона» бытия над временем, он даёт предметное представление о связи цивилизации с космосом. Творчество художника апеллирует к архаическим знаниям о Вселенной. Тогда представление об «объёме жизни» зависело от воображения. Такой подход может быть актуален и в наши дни как опыт познания бытия и времени.

О ПРОЕКТЕ «ANIZOTROPIA»:

Проект ANIZOTROPIA, состоящий из скульптур и объектов, исследует тему пространства и формы в контексте небытия как наследие метафизики формы Хайдеггера. Само название проекта связано с представлением древних греков об уникальной, невидимой и непредсказуемой траектории роста различных объектов в природе. Этот термин широко используется в физике твердого тела, химии и кристаллографии для определения зависимости характеристик объекта от его анизотропного состояния. Если сказать проще: материал считается изотропным, когда его свойства во всех направлениях одинаковые. Если же с изменением направления свойства материала изменяются, материал считается анизотропным. Точно так же скульптура из металлических труб и предметов повседневного обихода в процессе творчества принимает внутреннюю непредсказуемую форму, а конечный результат неизвестен до последнего момента. Следуя внутренней естественной логике художника, реди-мейды, использованные в инсталляциях, теряют свою четкость и функциональность, превращаясь в чистую форму.

ИЗБРАННЫЕ ВЫСТАВКИ И ПРОЕКТЫ:

  • 2025 — Ярмарка |catalog| ноябрь, a—s—t—r—a галерея, Москва, Россия
  • 2025 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Москва, Россия
  • 2025 — The way to Cronus, галерея a—s—t—r—a, Москва
  • 2023 — Darwin vs Darwin. Zimova Art Buro, Москва
  • 2022 — Breakfast at Cronus. Nadya Kotova Gallery, Антверпен, Бельгия
  • 2021 — Observer of Immense Space. Public Art. Зарядье, Москва
  • 2020 — Anizotropia. Центр искусств «Artcatch», Нидерланды 
  • 2020 — Round around. Галерея Gridchinhall, Cube Moscow, Москва
  • 2020 — ROUND AROUND Совместно с Олегом Хвостовым, Gridchinhall Moscow, Арт-центр Cube, Москва. 
  • 2019 — Being and Time. Asia Contemporary Art Show, Gallery Bruno Massa. Гонконг.
  • 2019 — Being and Time. Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Center. Манама, Бахрейн.
  • 2019 — Across Borders, Бахрейн
  • 2019 — Being and Time, культурный фонд «Екатерина», Москва
  • 2018 — Международная Биеннале Современного Искусства, Ташкент
  • 2018 — Последний Иов, Фонд Михаила Шемякина, Санкт-Петербург
  • 2018 — Flesh And Sky, Галерея 11.12, куратор Аттилия Фаттори Франкини, «Винзавод», Москва
  • 2017 — Уроки Естественной Истории, Государственный Музей им. Дарвина, Москва
  • 2017 — «Актуальная Россия: игра в классиков», совместно с Государственным центром современного искусства. Саратовский государственный художественный музей имени А.Н. Радищева
  • 2016 — «Актуальная Россия: среда обитания», Государственный музей современной истории России, Москва
  • 2014 — Белый Курган, Академия Искусств, Воронеж 
  • 2013 — «Археология памяти», Параллельная программа V Московской биеннале современного искусства, куратор Владимир Потапов. «Гоголь-Центр», Москва. 
  • 2013 — Проект V Московской Биеннале Современного Искусства, Москва 
  • 2012 — Zeta-потоп, Гоголь-центр, Москва
  • 2009 — Серые Экраны, Центральный Дом Художника, Москва


Works


Untitled #7 из проекта Thus Spoke Heaven
Korzhov Valentin

Untitled #7 из проекта Thus Spoke Heaven, 2020

Стекловолокно, сусальное золото
60 х 110 х 35 см
Timaeus из проекта Thus Spoke Heaven
Korzhov Valentin

Timaeus из проекта Thus Spoke Heaven, 2021

Стекловолокно, сусальное серебро
71 х 65 х 28 см
Untitled #2 из проекта Thus Spoke Heaven
Korzhov Valentin

Untitled #2 из проекта Thus Spoke Heaven, 2021

Стекловолокно, сусальное серебро
110 х 45 х 75 см
Untitled #5 из проекта Thus Spoke Heaven
Korzhov Valentin

Untitled #5 из проекта Thus Spoke Heaven, 2020

Стекловолокно, сусальное серебро
71 х 65 х 28 см

Koteshov Kirill

Kemerovo artist, a graduate of the Stieglitz Academy. Stieglitz. Creates industrial landscapes, transformed in accordance with the author's special philosophy into futuristic images of the city. Uses Kuzbasslak - coal tar, which refers to the industrial context of the small motherland.

Born in 1983 in Kemerovo.

Graduated from St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after A.L. Stieglitz at the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting, workshop of Prof. V.G. Lekanov (2004-2010) and Kemerovo Art College at the painting and pedagogical department (1999-2004). The works of the artist are in the Russian Museum.


In his works Kirill considers the idea of globalization as a metaphor for biblical subjects, using a stylistics referring to the aesthetics of the High Renaissance. Koteshov dissects the aesthetics of classical body image, exploring a motif reminiscent of Michelangelo's late sculptures from the Slaves series - spiraling bodies, somewhere unfinished, hardly carved from stone. 


The artist also creates industrial landscapes transformed into futuristic images of the city, using Kuzbasslak - coal tar, which refers to the industrial context of his small homeland.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

  • 2024  “Cosmopera”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow 
  • 2010 “Stolpopotvlenie”, Atelier No. 2 Gallery, Moscow
  • 2010 “Vive la jeune Garde”, Atelier du vent, Rennes
  • 2010 “L'Exposition d'Ilya Gaponov & Kirill Koteshov”, Maison du ventes Leclere, Marseille
  • 2010 “Summer snow”, Maison du Loir-et-Cher, Blois
  • 2008 “Three Days”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
  • 2008 “The Last Snow”, Globus Gallery, St. Petersburg
  • 2008 “UNDER GROUND”, Manezh, Small Hall, St. Petersburg
  • 2007 “Kuzbass Parallel”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
  • 2007 “Position”, Museum of St. Petersburg State Art and Design Academy, St. Petersburg

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

  • 2025 Fair |catalog| November, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2025  Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2024  Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2024 Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2024 St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg
  • 2024 Fair |catalog| April, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2023 Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2023 Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2023 St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 2021 “Answer 42” in the framework of the International Women's Forum, Kuzbass Ice Palace, Kemerovo, Russia
  • 2020 “Realism: yesterday and today. Art and Truth”, the branch of the Russian Museum in Malaga. Spain, Malaga
  • 2020 “Artists and collectors to the Russian Museum.Gifts.1898 - 2019. Selected” State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2019 “Beauty: PLUS-MINUS”, Central Exhibition Hall “Manezh”.
  • 2018 “Project of interregional cooperation in the field of contemporary art NEMOSKVA”
  • 2016 “Ark”, as part of the V International Biennale of Young Art, Moscow.
  • 2016 “Changes”, Ural Vision Gallery, Budapest
  • 2015 “Russia. Realism XXI century”, State Russian Museum, Benois Building, St. Petersburg
  • 2014 “Newer than New” as part of the Baltic Biennale, New Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2014 “Strictness and Beauty”, Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg
  • 2014 “The Other Capital”, Moscow Museum, Moscow
  • 2014 “Actual Drawing”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2014 “Waterline” installation, as part of the parallel program of the biennale “Manifesta10”, Rizzordi art foundation, St. Petersburg
  • 2013 ICONS. Creative space Tkachi. St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 2011 “Gates and Doors”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2010 ART Moscow, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
  • 2010 “Vive la jeune Garde”, Atelier du vent, Rennes
  • 2010 Summer Snow. Maison du Loir et Cher. Blois, France
  • 2010 “Hero of Our Time”, Moscow International Biennale “Stop! Who's Coming?”
  • 2010 “Futurology”, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow.
  • 2009 Kandinsky Prize Exhibition. Louise Blouin Foundation. London
  • 2009 ART Moscow, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
  • 2009 VIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk
  • 2009 Festival of Contemporary Art ART Zavod, Yekaterinburg (GTSI)
  • 2009 “Topology of Happiness”, Historic Architectural Museum Tsaritsyno, Moscow
  • 2009 “Russian Beauty”, GTSI, Moscow
  • 2009 Europe Art Fair 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2009 Art Basel Selection, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2008 “Death.net”, Art Gallery “Victoria”, Samara.
  • 2008 “White Space” Gallery, London
  • 2008 Festival of Contemporary Art ART Zavod, Yekaterinburg (GTSI)
  • 2008 ART Moscow, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
  • 2008 “Pereuchet” Manege, Small Hall, St. Petersburg
  • 2008 “Memory of Fields”, loft-project “Etazhi”, St. Petersburg
  • 2008 Festival of contemporary art “Snegarry”, Kemerovo
  • 2007 “The Most New”, Atelier Gallery No. 2, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
  • 2006 Festival of contemporary art “Art - Status”, Kemerovo
  • 2006 First Biennale of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
  • 2005 Exhibition of competitive works “The Nutcracker”, Exhibition Hall of the State Opera and Ballet Theater of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory
  • 2003 Work of the Year, Kemerovo Union of Artists, Kemerovo

ABOUT THE PROJECT “TREE OF LIFE”:

The main goal of the exhibition is to show the specifics of the functioning of drawing in contemporary Russian art. The main focus is on works from the 1990s-2000s, but earlier material, mostly related to conceptualism, is also included. The exhibition demonstrates various ways of actualizing drawing and drawing technique.

The intention of the work reflects the contemporary artist's distrust of the proper degree of grandeur of the space around him. The desire for the “great” inevitably leads to the element of monumental art organized according to classical laws. The idea is realized using the plot of the most daring creative event in the supposed history. The Tower of Babel, not the authentic stone steps of the ancient temple, but its mental construction, has penetrated the structure of memory and language as a multidimensional symbol. The creative act of erecting the tower can be regarded as a pure desire for greatness. The transformation of desire into action generates architectural splendor, allowing man to order nature according to the rules of supports and slabs. The creation of the tower (pillar) is the technological magnification of human civilization, and it continues to this day. Peoples, institutions, cultures and subcultures, overt and covert societies are equivalent as elements of the structure, the removal of one of them provokes instability of the puzzle. The personification of social realities turns into a metaphor of the construction process, where each character becomes an architectural block. It becomes clear that the piled bricks, which fall into place on their own, may not be aware of the existence of the Architect. Meanwhile, there is an Architect. In his role for a moment appears an artist creating virtual architecture. The scale and risk of this endeavor is deliberately high. An enthusiastically begun tower has turned into a construction frozen for lack of funds; a creation of grandiose utility risks turning into an aimless pandemonium of the crowd. And so, as a reminder of the great collapse of great ideas, the spirit of the titanic frescoes of the Renaissance inevitably accompanies the building. Considering the idea of globalization as a metaphor for biblical stories, the author uses a stylistic style that in its formal features refers to the aesthetics of the High Renaissance to build a sharp compositional structure. The body in this work merges one with the other. The body becomes at the same time a living matter, an inanimate object, a fragment, a puzzle, a detail of a mechanism that extends beyond the space of the canvas. By dissecting the aesthetics of the classical image of the body, the author thereby explores a motif that in some ways resembles the moment of Michelangelo's last sculptures from the “Slaves” series - these are spiraled bodies - somewhere unfinished - almost not carved from stone.  One can notice such a modernist gesture in them - the body both is and is not. In the same way, the body in Corpus II becomes a kind of refrain and continuation of the classical story of man, his spirit and struggle. The span of time of which we are participants and observers is a time of tectonic shifts of concepts and paradigms, like the Renaissance. Global structures absorb identities, leading to unification - of languages, images, worldviews. But can total equation be avoided? can a compromise between identity and the global emerge? can nations remain? Mixing and equation seems to be inevitable, but polyphony is always deeper and more complex. The paradox of globalization is the realization of identity. The tower cannot be completed. The general will still collapse into the particular. 

Actual Drawing Exhibition, 2014, Marble Palace, Russian Museum

Space Opera” exhibition, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow, 2024

“The Tree of Life is a complex image that exists in various cultures and is one of the monumental symbols of life, the planet and all living things. Kirill Koteshov reinterprets this image in the form of a large pictorial installation, enveloping the entire space and completely absorbing our visual perception. The monumental pictorial installation, which was created in the Russian Museum for the exhibition “Actual Drawing”, really combines monumental painting, which practically turns into wall painting. The drawing is executed so qualitatively that it creates a feeling of the work of old masters, nevertheless, the theme of the Tree of Life and its realization by Kirill Koteshov remain relevant today.  In Kirill Koteshov's work, the tree is formed by the intertwined figures of people, the bodies touching and connecting with each other, creating a sense of a tree crown, a monolithic mass moving upwards and uniting all things into a single bond. The bodies are devoid of faces, gender, individual characteristics, but they are physically ideal, perfect and identical. The figures support each other, make each other bend, move, assume certain poses - but all together they form a single chain of being, a life taking shape, a mass that seems indestructible.”

Kirill Koteshov

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:



Works


Мой внутренний Рим
Koteshov Kirill

Мой внутренний Рим, 2025

Canvas, oil, bituminous varnish
200 х 200 см
Untitled
Koteshov Kirill

Untitled, 2025

Canvas, oil, bituminous varnish
200 х 300 см
Utopia
Koteshov Kirill

Utopia, 2025

Canvas, oil, bituminous varnish
200 х 300 см
Utopia
Koteshov Kirill

Utopia, 2025

Canvas, oil, bituminous varnish
200 х 300 см

Orekhov Gregory

Lives and works in Moscow. Grigory Orekhov's works are in the collections of the Russian Museum and MAMM, as well as in private collections in the Netherlands, America, Italy and Jordan. Gregory presented his work at the Saatchi Gallery in London in 2017.

Grigory Orekhov is an artist and sculptor, born in Moscow in the family of the outstanding Soviet sculptor, academician, People's Artist of Russia Yuri Orekhov. His work is characterized by perfection of form and metaphorical depth. One of his significant works is the sculpture "Tumbler Agatha", created in honor of the artist's daughter. Agatha's birth was an inspiring and significant event in Gregory's life, vividly reflected in this work.

Grigory Orekhov is known for his projects in the field of public art and land art.

Grigory Orekhov is a regular participant of the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair. In 2017, he participated in the international exhibition "Start" at the Saatchi Gallery in London. 

In 2017, Grigory Orekhov installed the 4-meter-high sculpture "Agatha" at the main entrance to GUM on Red Square, and two years later it decorated the architectural ensemble of Stoleshnikov Lane, becoming the central element of Moscow's urban space.

In 2019, Grigory Orekhov became the first contemporary artist to present his work in the historical space of the Peterhof State Museum-Reserve – the sculptural composition "Eternity", dedicated to the 220th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin. Also in the same year, at the 58th International Venice Biennale, he presented the site-specific installation "Salvation" in the garden and on the facade of the Scuola Grande della Misericordia.

In 2020-2021, his sculpture OVOID 7.1 was presented on the Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin as part of the exhibition "Carl Faberge and Fyodor Ruckert. Masterpieces of Russian Enamel" in the Museums of the Moscow Kremlin.

Grigory Orekhov also created Russia's first modern sculpture dedicated to Kazimir Malevich in the park of the same name in 2020.

In 2021, he presented a large-scale land art project "Crossroads" on the Moskva River, drawing attention to the problem of building protected areas in the Moscow region.

In 2022, Grigory Orekhov took part in the first land art project "White Forest" in K. Malevich Park with his work "Nowhere", a 250-meter red carpet laid out in a snow-white forest along linden alley.

In 2023, he created a unique sculpture “Talmud” in the middle of Lake Senezh among thickets of reeds as part of the state program for landscaping the territories of the Moscow region.

He actively participates in solo and group exhibitions. His works are in the collections of the Russian Museum, MAMM and in private collections. In addition, Grigory Orekhov holds the post of General Director of the Sculptor Foundation of the Russian Academy of Arts and is a member of the Moscow Union of Artists.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2024 — Dream Shuttle, Toile Blanche Contemporary, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
  • 2024 — Echo, Land Art project in Malevich Park, Moscow Region
  • 2023 — Red Vertical 2022, a land art project in the Moscow region
  • 2021 — Crossroads, a land art project on the Moskva River, Moscow Region
  • 2020 — Harvest, Land art project, Moscow region
  • 2019 — Eternity, Peterhof State Museum, Saint Petersburg
  • 2019 — Major Tom, installation at the Skolkovo Golf Club, Moscow
  • 2019 — Salvation, Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice, Italy
  • 2018 — Undoubtedly, the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow
  • 2017 — Agatha, GUM, Red Square, Moscow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2024 — Group exhibition, Gallery in the East, Compiegne, France
  • 2022 — White Forest, Malevich Park, Moscow region
  • 2022 — New exhibition "90th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists", Moscow
  • 2022 — Created in Moscow, Jart Gallery, Moscow
  • 2021 — A shadow of the soul, but a little sharper, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
  • 2021 — Through and Through the Looking Glass, Museum of the 20th and 21st Centuries, St. Petersburg
  • 2020 — Another reality, Gallery "O", Moscow
  • 2020 — Exhibition of works by the nominees of the First Moscow Art Prize, Zaryadye, Moscow
  • 2020 — Ovoid 7.1, for the exhibition of CARL FABERGE and FYODOR RÜCKERT at the Kremlin Museums, Moscow
  • 2020 — Artists and Collectors at the Russian Museum, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2019 — Personal Structures-Identities, Palazzo Mora, Venice
  • 2018 — Breakthrough, Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow
  • 2018 — Lilac Ladies, O Gallery, Moscow
  • 2018 — KANON, O Gallery, Moscow
  • 2018 — RGB, O Gallery, Moscow
  • 2017 — Start, Saatchi Gallery, London
  • 2017 — Reflexion, O Gallery, Moscow

SELECTED FAIRS:

  • 2025 — Fair |catalog|  November, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2025  Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2024 — Cosmoscow, Timiryazev Center, Moscow
  • 2024 — BAD, Bordeaux Art+Design, Bordeaux
  • 2023 — Art Moscow, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
  • 2022 — Art Moscow, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
  • 2022 — Cosmoscow, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
  • 2021 — Cosmoscow, Manege, Moscow
  • 2020 — Cosmoscow, Manege, Moscow
  • 2019 — Cosmoscow, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
  • 2018 — Cosmoscow, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
  • 2017 — Cosmoscow, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow

AWARDS:

  • 2024 — Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts


Works


Mirage
Орехов Григорий

Mirage, 2025

Полированная нержавеющая сталь, алюминий
140 x 25 x 11 см
Break & Run
Орехов Григорий

Break & Run, 2024

Полированная нержавеющая сталь
33 x 33 x 7 cм
Tinsel
Орехов Григорий

Tinsel, 2021

Полированная нержавеющая сталь
140 х 60 х 200 см
Wanted
Орехов Григорий

Wanted, 2021

Полированная нержавеющая сталь с золотым покрытием 999
60 x 80 cм
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